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At 91, Betty Ryan doesn't glamorize her decision to travel in 1965 to Selma, Ala., answering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s call for support at a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights movement. "It just seemed like the right thing to do, the right place to be," she said. But to a group of students from Dominican University — planning to take part in the 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches on March 10 — their chance to meet Ryan and hear her story on Feb. 21 was an inspiration. The students, five men and five women, spent two hours at the Presbyterian Homes' Westminster Place retirement community in northwest Evanston, hearing...

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